Insights

Framing of adaptation economics

Infrastructure: costs and benefits of adaptation
Health: costs and benefits of adaptation
Energy: costs and benefits of adaptation
Coastal zones: costs and benefits of adaptation
Agriculture: costs and benefits of adaptation
Sourcing and using climate information for economic assessments of adaptation
Biodiversity and ecosystem services: costs and benefits of adaptation
Water and flood management: Costs and benefits of adaptation
Framing adaptation economics in decision-making: a policy-led framework

Micro-economic foundations

Treatment of future learning: Real Options Analysis
Dealing with changing preferences over time
Analysing trade-offs between development and adaptation
Framework for evaluating system-wide and sector-specific adaptation actions
Evaluating adaptation options through the elicitation of preferences
Use of discounting in adaptation
Treatment of future learning: Acceptable Risks Analysis

Scaling, Aggregation and transfer

Applying alternative discounting rules: The equivalency principle
Integrating distributional objectives in the cost:benefit analysis of adaptation options
The Use of Non-Monetary Metrics to Assess Adaptation Actions: Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCA)
The Use of Non-Monetary Metrics to Assess Adaptation Actions: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (CEA)
Private adaptation of adaptation goods: potential and policy instruments
Transferring values between locations in climate change adaptation

Treatment of uncertainty and risks

Uncertainties and causes of uncertainties in climate change adaptation
Uncertainties and risk analysis in climate change adaption
Assessing systemic risks in adaptation
Integrated uncertainties and risk management for robust decision making
Methods for expressing risk and ambiguity in economic analysis

Economic Project appraisal

Appraisal of adaptation to river flood at the Vltava river, Prague
Appraisal of adaptation to river and coastal flood in Bilbao

Policy Impact Assessment

Stochastic modelling for robust decision-making: The Common Agricultural Policy
Risk attitudes and preferences for adaptation in agriculture
Adaptive Management of Rural Land Use Systems: the Common Agricultural Policy

International Development Support

Prioritisation of adaptation in the development context: Rwanda
Prioritisation of adaptation in the development context: Zanzibar

Disaster risk management

Assessing flood risk management: United Kingdom
Assessing flood risk management: the Netherlands
Assessing flood risk management: Czech Republic
Assessing flood risk management: Austria
Fiscal consequences of extreme weather risks in Europe

Macro-economic effects of adaptation

Economy-wide implications of planned adaptation: The case of agriculture
The role of autonomous adaptation in global assessments at global level
Economy-wide implications of planned adaptation: The case of sea level rise